The PaperTrench Challenge

Watch the trenches.

Streamers run a paper wallet on live markets. Every fill is hash-chained, replayed, and re-priced against public market history.

Who's on the board

Same paper wallet. Same hash chain. Pick a card to watch them here.

How a record is checked

Nobody on this page reports their own numbers. Three checks, in order. The code is public.

STEP 01 · LOCAL

Each fill signs the one before it

The moment a trade executes, the extension commits its mint, size, price, timestamp and chain into a SHA-256 link over the previous one. Editing any fill after the fact breaks every link that followed it.

STEP 02 · SERVER

The whole chain is re-hashed and replayed

On submission the server recomputes every link, refuses a history that shrank or was swapped for a luckier one, and replays the book itself. Your claimed P&L is never what ranks. The replay's is.

STEP 03 · MARKET

Every fill is re-priced against real candles

A valid hash only proves a history is internally consistent. So each fill's price is checked against the minute it claims to have traded in, using public market data. A price that never existed fails the record.

What the checks do not cover. Re-pricing needs public candle data for the minute a fill claims. Newest launches often have none. Those fills come back unpriced rather than passing, and a record carrying too many of them is labelled instead of ranked. Live/offline badges come from each platform's own public endpoint — Twitch's preview images, Kick's channel API — not from official partner APIs, so treat them as a hint. A YouTube card never shows one at all: nothing public reports that channel's status without a key, and a guess is worse than a blank. The full protocol, including what it refuses to claim, is in LEADERBOARD.md.

The overlay is a green screen

Live equity, session P&L, win rate, open positions. Permanently marked PAPER so chat is never in doubt.

STEP 01

Install PaperTrench

Grab the zip from the install guide. Free, open source, no signup.

STEP 02

Open the overlay

Click the PaperTrench icon, then Stream overlay. A capture-ready window opens on a green screen.

STEP 03

Add it to OBS

Sources → Window Capture → pick the overlay → add a Chroma Key filter. Defaults just work.

STEP 04

Go live and apply

Trade with the overlay on screen, then apply for the roster to get featured here.

Watch, or get in.

Same overlay. Same paper wallet. Same board.